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Dordt College Men's Basketball vs. Sioux Falls

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(Sioux Falls, South Dakota) The Dordt College Defender men's basketball team survived a 76-74 scare at the University of Sioux Falls Cougars on Saturday in Great Plains Athletic Conference play. The Defenders led most of the game but needed a late steal by Scott Van Zanten to seal the win and the regular season sweep against the Cougars.

Dordt led most of the first half with Sioux Falls leading briefly 4-3 and Dordt got their first double digit lead of the game at the 9:39 mark on a Michael Eekhoff three-pointer. Dordt extended the lead to 29-14 on a Logan Kingma three-pointer but the Cougars would own the final 6:57 of the first half with Dordt clinging to a 38-35 halftime edge.

Sioux Falls scored the first two points of the second half but the Dordt defense would stifle the Cougars for the next ten minutes to a total of just five second half points. The Cougars would make up for that total though with 34 points in the final ten minutes. Dordt led by as many as 16, 60-44 with 7:30 left and were still up ten with 2:13 left in the game on a Michael Eekhoff free throw. Dordt was able to fend off each of Sioux Falls' advances with Mark Rowenhorst making a pair of free throws down the stretch and Logan Kingma made one of two but the win wasn't secured until Sioux Falls lost the ball to Van Zanten after a pair of missed free throws by Dordt with :05 remaining.

Dordt converted 24-57 shots for 42 percent and 23-35 free throws. Sioux Falls was good for 27-61 field goals including 7-19 three-pointers with 13-20 free throws.

Dordt was led in scoring by Michael Eekhoff who was limited to 20 minutes of play but managed to score 18 points with two assists. Logan Kingma had 16 points with six rebounds and Brian Eekhoff scored 12 with five rebounds. Eric Van Maanen had 11 points and three steals while Mark Rowenhorst had six off the bench and Chad Huenink four rebounds.

Sioux Falls got 19 points and 11 rebounds from Gerad Van Leur while Jesse Huser hit for 17 points--15 of them on three-pointers.

Dordt improves to 7-2 in the conference and 13-6 overall while Sioux Falls is now 6-14 and 3-6. Dordt will host Morningside on Wednesday, January 23 at 8:00 in their next action.